Scroll for more information on each of these events!
Links and dates for more events from Side With Love
are included at the end of the newsletter.
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Resources to Meet the Moment |
- Explore these UUA Community Resilience Hub resources for actionable steps:
- From NER:
- Check in with your State Action Network for more organizing tools and opportunities:
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The world outside our congregational doors is chaotic, noisy, and frightening. Congregations can be a powerful source of resilience in times like these. We will give you concrete practices and skills to care for your community so you can move from reactivity to faithful responsiveness and do what is yours to do in the world.
Registration is free and required. This event will be recorded; please register to receive the link when it is available, even if you cannot attend live. The registration deadline is Wednesday, May 21. |
A Series of Small Group Reflections |
As Unitarian Universalists recently affirmed seven Shared Values that define our faith, this series explores each one, using a podcast episode from a diverse list of pods as the "text" to generate thought, discussion, and learning together. In October, we began with a covenanting session and discussed how we care for one another.
For the final gathering of our Podcast Theology series, we will focus on our shared value of Love: “Love is the power that holds us together and is at the center of our shared values. We are accountable to one another for doing the work of living our shared values through the spiritual discipline of Love.” The episode Something Large and Wild from the podcast This is Love will shape our discussion about “the ways in which we bet everything on each other” and how Love is a tool for liberation.
Join us as we reflect on the ways in which Love guides us and how we might wield its power in new ways. If you haven't come for a while, we especially encourage you to attend this session as we celebrate the learning community we created over the year. And who wants to miss an evening centered on Love?
We gather on Wednesday, May 14 from 7:00 to 8:00pm ET. We will open the Zoom room at 6:30pm and stream the episode during an optional pre-gathering listening session. Come prepared to listen and share ideas in our learning community!
Sign up now to receive the Zoom link for this gathering and any follow up materials for the series. More information is available on our website. |
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Let's connect on Tuesday, June 10 from 7:00 to 8:30pm ET! Join with your peers to share ideas, strategies, questions, concerns, and to receive and offer support.
This gathering is open to current New England Region Board members and those who will be on the Board within the next several months.
The Zoom link and our pre-gathering survey will be sent to all Board members. To ensure receipt, please check that all information on my.uua.org for your congregation is current and correct. Latecomers and early departures are welcome.
We look forward to gathering with you! |
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Let's connect on Wednesday, June 11 from 12:00 to 1:00pm ET! Join your peers to share ideas, questions, concerns, and support.
This gathering is open to all New England Region congregational administrators.
The Zoom link will be sent to all congregational administrators. To ensure receipt, please check that all information for your congregation on my.uua.org is current and correct. Latecomers and early departures are welcome.
We look forward to gathering with you! |
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Join The Gathering, Side With Love’s monthly virtual event to strengthen your spirit, make sense of the threats to democracy, and take meaningful action alongside others.
This month at The Gathering, we will be anchored in the poetry of Julian Jamaica Soto and Side with Love’s Nicole Pressley will invite us into learning about strategy and what makes economic strategies like boycotts successful (or not!).
Every second Monday at 8:00pm ET; this month on Monday, May 12 from 8:00 to 9:15pm ET. Registration is free and required.
If you are staff or a Board member you have also received an invitation for a leader-specific follow up, Now What?: The Gathering, on Wednesdays from 1:00 to 2:15pm ET. Please check your inbox. Email the New England Region or submit this request form to your primary contact with any questions. |
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Congratulations to the NER 2024-2025 Leadership Congregations - thank you for your generous contributions (and thank you to all our contributing congregations across the region!).
- First Parish in Bedford. Bedford, MA
- First Parish in Concord. Concord, MA
- First Parish UU of Arlington, Massachusetts. Arlington, MA
- First Unitarian Church of Providence. Providence, RI
- First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton. Newton, MA
- South Church. Portsmouth, NH
- The North Parish of North Andover. North Andover, MA
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Concord. Concord, NH
- UU Area Church at First Parish Sherborn. Sherborn, MA
- UU Church of Nashua New Hampshire. Nashua, NH
- Winchester Unitarian Society. Winchester, MA
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UUA Moderator Candidate Forum |
The UUA Election Campaign Practices Committee (ECPC) will sponsor a Moderator Candidate Forum on Sunday, May 18 from 7:00 to 8:30pm ET, featuring Natasha Walker, individual candidate for Moderator, and Rev. Kimberly Quinn Johnson and Bill Young, Moderator candidate team.
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Propose an Action of Immediate Witness
for General Assembly 2025 |
Are you ready to lead others in resistance, action, witness, and power? Amplify our power through collective action!
Actions of Immediate Witness (AIWs) are a tool for UU's across the nation to get support for critical, immediate concerns. By proposing an AIW at the 2025 General Assembly, you disseminate information and galvanize action from UU's everywhere.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, May 12. More information is available on our website. |
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From the UU Mental Health Network: |
Join for the UU Mental Health Network online worship service, Scared Wholeness: Reimagining Mental Health as Liberation, on Sunday, May 18 at 6:00pm ET featuring Rev. Phoenix Bell Shelton Biggs. More information is available. |
Unitarian Universalist Association, New England Region
24 Farnsworth Street
Boston, MA
02210
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